Recombinant phage and methods
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- US · United States
- Patent Type
- Applications(United States)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- INST FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
- Publication Date
- 2013-05-16
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Abstract
Description
REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61 / 539,454, filed Sep. 26, 2011; U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61 / 549,743, filed Oct. 20, 2011; and U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61 / 642,691, filed May 4, 2012. The entire contents of each of those applications are hereby incorporated herein by reference.SEQUENCE LISTING
[0002] The instant application contains a Sequence Listing which has been submitted in ASCII format via EFS-Web and is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety. Said ASCII copy, created on Nov. 14, 2012, is named 1211USNP.txt and is 12,065 bytes in size.INTRODUCTION
[0003] Model phage have been engineered using molecular biology techniques to deliver heterologous protein products to bacterial cells. For example, phage have been engineered to deliver enzymes to biofilms to digest the extracellular matrix and destroy the biofilm. (E.g., U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2009 / ...